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5 unusual facts about Michał Elwiro Andriolli


Michał Elwiro Andriolli

His work for various Warsaw-based newspapers made him one of the most renown illustration makers of the time and Andriolli was hired to illustrate some of the classic works of the Polish literature, notably the works by Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

Arrested by the tsarist authorities, he managed to escape from Kaunas Prison and reach London and then Paris.

There he started his career as an illustrator for various newspapers, notably the Tygodnik Ilustrowany, Kłosy and Biesiada Literacka.

He is notable for his illustrations to Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, as well as a distinctive style of villas built outside Warsaw.

Between 1883 and 1886, he lived in Paris, where he worked on illustrating the French language editions of works by William Shakespeare and James Fenimore Cooper.



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